> > Previously Steve Greenland wrote: > > > Stdout and stderr from the maintainer scripts. (This may be obvious, but > >> you didn't explicitly list it.) > > > > No, they should use debconf. > > Regardless of whether packages are using debconf, I have wondered for *years* > why we didn't at least have the option of logging stdout and stderr from > everything in the install/update process. I think it's a good idea. > > Bdale
I have proposed this two years ago and implemented it in my automatic installer for slink. The idea is to start a script session from an initscript hook for vt1 and have all the debian installation started automagically by the shell run by script with all output logged into a logfile. Since all can be done with shell script hacks this solution is very easy to implement and requires very few changes to the installation program. A simple shell wrapper should work. -- Massimo Dal Zotto +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141 phone: ++39-0461534251 | | 38057 Pergine Valsugana (TN) www: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/ | | Italy pgp: see my www home page | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
